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These are being built using Larry Marx plans that were in the Ringmaster forum. He doesn't say on the plans, but I'm guessing solid wire lead outs. But I have thought of mono line buttons on the bell crank with a removable section over the wing like we used to do with our racing planes. Or does the lead out have to be separate at the wing tip? Also can I have them above the wing?

I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived.John E. "DOC" Holliday10421 West 56th TerraceShawnee, KANSAS 66203AMA 23530

The official plans show NO controls at all, so whatever you do is legal.Back in the day, Jim Walker would either collect a royalty or sue for it. So some designers either showed no controls or some bogus system that everybody knew would be replaced with a bellcrank.

I like my controls on the bottom of the wing with an adjustable leadout guide. It's tough to get the leadouts inside the small elliptical wing.

I like to start with buttons and leadouts for test flying. Then if it goes fast enough to be competitive, you can switch to hooking up at the buttons.

Boy what a clutz I am. Spent most of the evening doing this bell crank for one of the Perky's. I decided the wings are so thin that the bell cranks will go below the wing. Hope the attached looks legal. It is .20 music wire terminated with copper wrapping.

I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived.John E. "DOC" Holliday10421 West 56th TerraceShawnee, KANSAS 66203AMA 23530

Boy what a clutz I am. Spent most of the evening doing this bell crank for one of the Perky's. I decided the wings are so thin that the bell cranks will go below the wing. Hope the attached looks legal. It is .20 music wire terminated with copper wrapping.

With these planes doing nothing more than take off, fly fast and land there be no worry about the bell crank from my past experience of using those bell cranks. Even using cable lead outs I have yet to have one cut through on aerobatic with hundreds of flights on them.

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I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived.John E. "DOC" Holliday10421 West 56th TerraceShawnee, KANSAS 66203AMA 23530